After compiling a 416-427-11 record over 56 seasons, missing the playoffs in 39 of those seasons and in seven of the past eight years, and failing to build community support for a new stadium, the team is moving to Los Angeles, where it played one season in 1960. Oh well.

The fans who packed Qualcomm Stadium for years will experience a flood of emotions now that Chargers CEO Dean Spanos has at last made his decision to quit on San Diego. If there’s a saving grace in this miserable season of difficult defeats and utter uncertainty, it’s that we have felt these emotions before. Anxiety. Sadness. Anger. Disbelief. Be sure to add another emotion to that list: relief.

Will the Chargers have better luck in a shiny new stadium in the nation’s second-biggest media market? Who cares.

Were the Chargers really serious about staying in San Diego? Who cares.

Whose fault is it that they’re leaving? Who cares.

These questions don’t matter anymore. Don’t give the Spanos family a second thought.

The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board recently wrote that Spanos should stay in San Diego because he has lived here for decades and because the region is better for it, and because we had faith a stadium deal could get done in San Diego. We meant it. Fans told us they still loved the team despite everything Spanos had done to disenfranchise them. They meant it.

Now Spanos has given up on us.

It was only last year that he flatly and falsely said, “We’ve had nine different proposals that we’ve made, all of them were basically rejected by the city.” The problem with that, of course, is that they weren’t rejected by the city and they weren’t even plans.

Let’s not even discuss the horrible campaign the Chargers ran last year as they used bluster and bullying to seek support for a downtown stadium. It stood no chance. It was a one-sided, hastily arranged plan lacking the coalition that helped the Padres get Petco Park approved in 1998.

It has been 17 years since Alex Spanos first frustrated fans by telling a reporter, “We need a new stadium,” and 14 years since the team’s proposal to redevelop the Qualcomm site fell prey to the city’s pension crisis and a crumbling economy, and eight years since the team first expressed interest in the East Village site voters ultimately rejected in November. Spanos could have given up on the lure of Los Angeles, renegotiated his lease at the nearly 50-year-old Qualcomm Stadium and worked with city and county politicians to build a stadium in the right place at the right cost.

But who cares.

To be honest, San Diego football fans never warmed to the Spanos family. It didn’t help that in 1986, just two years after the buying the team, Alex Spanos, Dean’s father, unceremoniously dismissed legendary head coach Don Coryell, an architect of a playoff run that had lasted four straight years. By 1988, fans were unceremoniously booing Alex Spanos at the retirement ceremony for future Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts’ No. 14.

After Dean Spanos took over for his dad, he hired milquetoast coaches, fired one after a 14-2 season and, lest we forget, engineered the infamous ticket guarantee. In yet another slow start in 2012, well after Spanos had taken over football operations from his father, the Chargers hit rock bottom when public relations director told disgruntled fans on the team’s official website: “Time to take a chill pill.”